Now, I'm a complete newb to RAID and it took me a while to figure out how to set that up using the Ubuntu alternate CD. Now I want to install Mint I'm not really sure how to do it... the Mint installer doesn't recognise the array as such, but displays them as 2 identical disks. I basically want to just reinstall /dev/md0 (the root partition) without affecting anything else (/home), can anyone explain how I do that in the Mint installer?

Mint currently doesn't support MD devices nor LVM at installation time which is a huge bug bear !There are ways of doing it however it's really not for the faint hearted and can lead to a non-working system!

Take a look at this posting: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=30841It may be of help to you, however if you don't understand it then please don't attempt it!

MikeT.

Kazade wrote:Hi all,

I've decided to make the switch from Ubuntu to Mint on my desktop PC. My current Ubuntu install is configured as follows:

Now, I'm a complete newb to RAID and it took me a while to figure out how to set that up using the Ubuntu alternate CD. Now I want to install Mint I'm not really sure how to do it... the Mint installer doesn't recognise the array as such, but displays them as 2 identical disks. I basically want to just reinstall /dev/md0 (the root partition) without affecting anything else (/home), can anyone explain how I do that in the Mint installer?

Hmm, that's a real shame that it's not supported. I guess this is inherited from Ubuntu and needs to be solved there... Is there an alternative CD for Linux Mint like there is Ubuntu? Or this there a way to install Ubuntu from the alternate cd and then "upgrade" to Mint?

If not, can anyone recommend me a fully hardware (e.g. not fakeraid) controller that is known to work with Linux (I guess Linux wouldn't even need to know about a full raid controller) and is reasonably cheap?